Coward punch survivor Danny Hodgson has slammed the WA justice system after his attacker allegedly robbed and assaulted a woman.
Life remains at a standstill for Hodgson and his partner Jessica Pollock after a one-punch attack left the 27-year-old with a catastrophic brain injury.
"Unless you're in this situation, you can't put it into words what it's actually like to have your life taken away from you," Hodgson said.
Meanwhile his attacker freed, now 19, was freed only to allegedly reoffend.
"He's seen what a punch can do to someone," Hodgson said.
"I've had six brain surgeries, I'm serving a life sentence and to be honest, he is invincible and he knows he is."
The teen thug was on bail when he knocked the talented soccer player to the ground near Perth train station in September 2021.
He was sentenced to three and a half years behind bars but served 22 months.
The supervised release review board let him out early in May, even after he was charged over a Banksia Hill Detention Centre riot.
"It's the people who are meant to stop them who are just as guilty," Hodgson said.
A few weeks ago, the 19-year-old allegedly punched a Geraldton bottle shop worker.
Police alleged she had been trying to stop him from stealing.
"I think it's mainly the justice system that needs to really take this and just see what these people are doing, ruining people's lives on a daily basis," Pollock said.
The former footballer was particularly upset that when the magistrate released the accused on bail she had not been told about the younger man's attack on Hodgson.
The board urgently cancelled his supervision order yesterday and he was taken back into custody.
"We're trying to build our life back again and it's just constant hits to the ground from the justice system," Pollock said.
9News asked the review board for a copy of the decision explaining why the teenager was released early, but was told for confidentiality reasons it was unable to provide details regarding a young person's matter.
Attorney-General John Quigley has promised a review.
"The board processes are sound but I'll be making enquiries into the circumstances of his release, this offence, and his re-arrest," he said.
